Monday, March 21, 2016

Retribution

Sofia (AFP) - A Palestinian
activist wanted by Israel over the killing of a Jewish settler 30 years
ago was found dead Friday in Bulgaria, local police and the Palestinian
Authority said. Omar Nayef
Zayed, 51, was discovered in the courtyard of the Palestinian embassy in
Sofia, police said. Bulgarian radio reported that he had fallen from
the fourth floor...

The
leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), of which
Nayef was a member, cited in a statement his family as calling his death
an "assassination". It said
that Nayef, originally from Jenin in the West Bank, had sought refuge in
the Palestinian embassy in Sofia two months ago and had "received
threats"...

Nayef
was convicted in 1986 over a murder case but escaped in 1990 during a
visit to a Bethlehem hospital. He fled to Bulgaria in 1994 and married a
local woman with whom he had three children.

Late
last year Bulgarian authorities agreed to examine an Israeli
extradition request, but a December 14 hearing was postponed because
Nayef was not at his address, the Bulgarian interior ministry said. His
death came a day after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov returned from a
trip to Israel. Borisov said he discussed Nayef with both Israeli and
Palestinian officials during the visit."

Please mention how the the ATP describes Zayed's victim as "Jewish settler", as if rationalizing the murder. Al Jazeera, in a March 2 report, gives more details: "Zayed was sentenced by an Israeli court to life in prison after being
charged with killing a yeshiva student in occupied East Jerusalem in
1986. Four years into his sentence, he managed to escape Israeli custody
during a hospital visit. He ended up in Sofia in 1994, and was granted
residency, starting a family. Zayed's quiet life running a grocery store with his wife and three
children turned upside down a couple of months ago, when the Israeli
embassy in Sofia requested that the Bulgarian government extradite him
on December 15."

I had to to turn to an Israeli source to find the victim's name: Eliyahu Amedi.

Zayed's family, the PFLP and the Palestinian community in Sofia are praising him as hero and demanding "the truth" about his death. Bulgarian sources are more elaborate about these reactions than English-language media, but I prefer not to translate. This support of a murderer is just pathetic and paints a nihilistic picture of the human race. These arrogant, despicable Palestinians should be thankful that we in Europe do not follow Mr. Zayed's example and do not rush to murder "settlers" whom we do not like.

Most commentators suspect that Mossad is responsible for Zayed's death. However, I would not exclude the Palestinians themselves from suspicion. According to Al Jazeera, "neither Zayed's family, nor the PFLP, spared the Palestinian Authority
from blame. Besides failing to save his life, they claim Omar was under
pressure from within the Palestinian embassy to leave its premises." The fugitive was clearly a liability for the embassy, exposing the true face of "Palestine" as a terror organization rather than a state, complicating their relations with Bulgaria and using their coffee, toothpaste, blankets, shower etc. So I find it quite possible that someone in the embassy decided to get rid of him in the same manner as the Islamic State deals with suspected gays.

Al Jazeera also reports that "a few dozen Palestinians protested outside the Bulgarian Representative office in Ramallah amid a heavy security presence. The protesters held a banner threatening that "the crime of
assassinating Al Nayef (Zayed) won't go unpunished"..."We came here to deliver a clear message to the Bulgarian
representative; that they are responsible for this heinous crime," Ahmad
Zayed, Omar's brother told Al Jazeera." (This brother was an accomplice in the 1986 murder.) I find it possible that our authorities turned a blind eye, but I don't think they assassinated Zayed - they are usually not so proactive.

Anyway, whoever did it, I like this ending of the case.

I wish to live in a world in which the life of each human being is valued by all others, and murder is never considered by anyone as a solution to any problem.

But, because I am not granted this, I want the next best thing: a world in which murder brings retribution.

I hope that Eliyahu Amedi's parents are alive and have heard the good news.

2 comments:

I followed this case in Jerusalem Post, and my reaction is the same as yours. But also I am amused, just a bit, at the mentality of Palestinians who think the Mossad did it. They have such a low opinion of their fellow Palestinians' competence, and such a conspiratorial mindset, that they imagine the Mossad can operate within the PA's "embassy."

If Mossad has done it, I'd say - good job!Your thoughts reflect a conversation I had with a relation of mine. He was sure that Mossad was responsible, though he (like me) had only the media reports and no evidence. I commented, "They, why are Palestinians so sloppy and incompetent, to allow Mossad operate in their own embassy like home? I call this natural selection in action!". My relative had nothing to reply, because he often says that humanity would look better if we give natural selection more opportunities to act.

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